Mammoth

Mammoth-s protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She-s inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down to essentials. She seduces men at random, swaps her urban habitat for an isolated farmhouse, befriends a shepherd, nurses lambs, battles stray cats, waits tables, cleans house, and dabbles in sex work - all in pursuit of life in the raw. This small bomb of a novel, not remotely pastoral, builds to a howling crescendo of social despair, leaving us at the mercy of Eva Baltasar-s wild voice. -One sensationalist way of describing Mammoth would be to call it a ferocious and brutalist version of Thoreau.- Pere Antoni Pons